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Sex as a predictor of clinical phenotype and determinant of immune response in IgG4-related disease: a retrospective study of patients fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology-European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria.
The Lancet. Rheumatology - 1 Jul 2024
Jha Isha, McMahon Grace A, Perugino Cory A, Katz Guy, Wallace Zachary S, Fernandes Ana, Jiang Bohang, Zhang Yuqing, McMahon Aubree E, Guy Thomas V, Liu Hang, Hernandez-Barco Yasmin G, Pillai Shiv, Stone John H
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BACKGROUND: IgG4-related disease is a multiorgan fibroinflammatory disease considered to have an autoimmune origin. Case series describing individual organ involvement have suggested differences in phenotypic expression between males and females. We aimed to characterise differences in IgG4-related disease manifestations between male and female patients in a large single-centre cohort. METHODS: In this...
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